Re: [BUG] Org publish makeindex doesn't work on symlinked path [9.6.4 ( @ /home/bence/src/org-mode/lisp/)]

[Bence Fábián]

Hi Igor,

> 5. emacs -Q /path/to/README.org
> 6. Open the second relative file link

When I do this then when I push `C-x C-f' I see that I'm in the
non-symlinked path.
And that shows up in the source block evaluation as well.

In fact even if I do
```
emacs -Q /tmp/org-publish-symlink-repro/shortcut/something/index.org
```
I end up in the "real" directory.  I'm not sure what's governing this
behavior in emacs.
What I suspect now is the culprit is that the linked directory is on a
different BTRFS subvolume.
In my original case.

Can you try changing the line
```
  (let ((base-dir default-directory))
```
to
```
  (let ((base-dir "/tmp/org-publish-symlink-repro/shortcut/something/"))
```
and see what happens then?

BR,
Bence

On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 1:04 PM Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> wrote:
>
> Bence Fábián <begnoc@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > When performing an `org-publish' if the `:base-directory' property
> > contians a symlink in its path, then the `theindex.inc' file is not
> > populated.
> >
> > I created a repo to help reproduce the bug:
> > https://github.com/bencef/org-publish-symlink-repro
>
> I tried to reproduce starting from emacs -Q, and I am unable to.
>
> I did
> 1. cd /tmp
> 2. git clone https://github.com/bencef/org-publish-symlink-repro
> 3. cd org-publish-symlink-repro
> 4. ln -sf /tmp/org-publish-symlink-repro/long/path/to ./shortcut
> 5. emacs -Q /path/to/README.org
> 6. Open the second relative file link
> 7. C-c C-e C-f P x <TAB> <RET>
>
> All the files are published correctly, including the index.
>
> --
> Ihor Radchenko // yantar92,
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